A downloadable game

Dungeons of Pendragon is a solo pen-and-paper dungeon crawl that draws from medieval British mythology.

This game has:

  • Quests you can choose from, with their own rewards.
  • Dungeon map drawing.
  • A  peddler you can buy and sell items from.
  • Simple-but-fun combat where the dice you roll decide who attacks who, what the damage is, and what the defence is.
  • Heroic feats, which lets you swap rolled dice to turn the combat in your favour.
  • Enemy actions that are performed when they roll a critical hit.
  • Simple progression which means you become more able with a weapon, or stronger against enemies you've faced many times.
  • The ability to recover items from your dead characters.

There are 4 pages of rules and 12 pages of look-up tables for quests, peddler items, room contents, enemies, enemy status, weapons, armour, consumables, and treasure.

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(cross-posted from bgg)

I really liked it! much more to it than Simple Dungeon. The strategy I adopted was to flee from stronger enemies while circling back to the peddler often to grow my inventory. The quests are fun, and the combat is unique.

I have a few notes/opinions/observations

-I wish there was a final boss! I spent a while building up my character, I'd like to see what he's got against a formidable foe.
-any chance there's a way to add a second character to my party?
-does the entrance count as an "existing" room? I'm assuming yes, but figured I'd ask.
-when do we use the enemy status table?
-part of the fun of these pencil and paper games (imo) is drawing the rooms from a guide. For me, it helps with making a non-cheesy dungeon, haha

Thanks so much for making this game, I enjoyed it and will play again!! Mike

hey there. Just downloaded DofP and trying to get my head round it. A question for you. In the Enemy Details there is a D20 then a  number. What is it for?

Thanks 

Thanks for the question. The number next to "d20" in the enemy details section matches the number you'll find for that enemy in the "Enemies (in d20 order)" table. It's only there if you e.g. roll on the enemies table, get a 7, and want to make sure the enemy you find in the enemy details section is the same once (since it'll say "7" in its d20 box).

If you roll on the enemy table and then look up the enemy by name, you can ignore the d20 number.

Does that make sense? Let me know what you think of the game.